From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 9: 5:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov (mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov [147.155.137.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD56E15741 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:05:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov) Received: from demios.ether.scl.ameslab.gov ([147.155.137.54]) by mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov with esmtp (Exim 1.90 #1) id 10cWqU-0006oq-00; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:05:58 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:05:11 -0500 From: Guy Helmer To: Erik de Zeeuw Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with ethernet bridging with FreeBSd In-Reply-To: <37271F1C.819B030A@wanadoo.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Erik de Zeeuw wrote: > I compiled my kernel with the "options BRIDGE", with no errors. Then I'm > turning the bridge on using the sysctl variables listed in the manpage, > and it seems to be Ok. > ... > The FreeBSD version is the 3.1 4CD set of Walnut Creek, March 1999. I'm > using a P200, 32Mb, with 2 pci ne2000 cards wich are working fine. > > One card is ed1, with an ip adress, and the other is ed2 with no ip > adress. Both are put in promisc mode when I'm setting the > net.link.ether.bridge > variable to 1. Bridging support in the ed driver was added to 3.x after 3.1-RELEASE. You would need to update the driver and rebuild the kernel to make it work. The 3.x-STABLE sys/i386/isa/if_ed.c can be obtained at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/isa/if_ed.c?rev=1.148.2.1 Guy Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Candidate, Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science Research Assistant, Ames Laboratory --- ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science --- ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message